Adding More Awesome to Your Office

Whether you prefer OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice, which currently still are pretty similar, out of the box, they are missing some of the conveniences installed by their commercial counterparts. Granted, they are fully functional, but if you want a robust clip-art library and a decent selection of document templates, you'll want to add some extensions and templates.

Yes. OpenOffice is still alive and doing as well as can be expected in its transition to an Apache Incubator project -- http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ (incubator web site mostly for product development and transition discussion at the moment. Stay tuned for the new "user" site coming soonish). Still much to be decided, but things are moving along.